How do I sort a Map by Key in Java

The elements in map are stored as {<”testkey1″, “value1″>, <”testkey2″, “value2″>, Map class makes no guarantees as to the order, it is unordered so that we can’t assume anything beyond that, in this how-to, we will look at how to sort a map by Key in Java.

1. Use HashMap sort the collections.

Object[] key = map.keySet().toArray();
Arrays.sort(key);
for (int i = 0; i < key.length; i++) {
  System.out.println(map.get(key[i]));
}

(2) Use TreeMap instead of HashMap, this is precisely what its for, if this map is passed to you and you cannot determine the type, so you can do the following:

TreeSet<String> keys = new TreeSet<String>(map.keySet());
for (String key : keys) {
String value = map.get(key);
// do something
}

(3) If  TreeMap is not what you want and you can’t use generic:

List sortedKeys=new ArrayList(yourMap.keySet());
Collections.sort(sortedKeys);
// Do what you need with sortedKeys.